this country but he's not the first president to speak frankly or attack opponents lyndon b. johnson frequently used profanity to push politicians to support him richard nixon disparaged black people and jews in oval office recordings released after his death and how to truman called a political opponent the equivalent of hitler the difference no according to one political expert is modern media creates a stronger connection with the audience what makes it so extraordinary is not really the language but the presentation of the language the fact that we see it in real time the fact that we are all able to hear about it through social media or the mainstream media that is really what's new there was a social media storm after a new democratic congresswoman use trumped like language to describe the president bullies don't play and the baby gets out because we're going to go in there really . the strong language on both sides highlights the polarization of american

politics makes it harder to reach a middle ground it's perhaps reflective of where society is and what the presidential election season about to get under way a same post to where we're headed alan fischer al-jazeera washington lebanon's currency the leader is under pressure there are fears that without much needed reforms it could lose its value even more worsening an already bad economic situation the central bank has dismissed those fears for the first time is taking measures to safeguard the lira so holder has more from beirut. the lebanese the euro has been pegged at one thousand five hundred to the dollar since one nine hundred ninety eight there have been concerns over the years about its value especially during times of political and economic instability which are all too common here but now some lebanese fear a currency collapse the central bank says that won't happen but is preventing exchange dealers from making statements so as not to cause panic despite the assurances people are worried about the americas about them but the central bank

tells us that they devalue but the economy is bad people barely can afford to eat with us from atlanta if the economic situation continues the way it is then the lira will really be in danger we need a government to deal with the crisis lebannon has been without a government for nine months now politicians are fighting over the sectarian distribution of seats which means much needed structural reforms can't be carried out the little bit. the lure is at risk people have little faith in the national currency ninety percent of them used dollars money transfer firms must now exclusively use local currency when dispensing cash sent from abroad it's part of preventive measures adopted by the central bank to support the legal route we are now using the demand on these near and terms of monetary policy which means that we will have more stable prices. like there is an emergency need that

pushed them to issue this decision at this time. banks are also taking action to choose offering high interest rates to persuade customers to convert their savings into lior as the world bank the international monetary fund and credit rating agencies are all warning about what they describe as the country's worrying financial condition they say lebanon's risk profile is rising and that's the problem because investor confidence is needed to attract foreign capital lebanon's economy relies on that. i don't see. all of that in my service.

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a family counter will play the biggest match and their football history when they take on continental giants japan and friday's asian cup final they got there thanks to a four no win over the turn that house the united arab emirates it was a game where regional politics also played a major part so how malik reports. it was dubbed the blockade dobby qatar taking on asian cup hosts the u.a.e. one of the four arab nations imposing a blockade on them since two thousand and seventeen but despite the political tension there was plenty of goodwill on show before kickoff to the two thirty zero zero i did once the action started though it didn't take long for things to heat up . the do it a little so we were tempted to tell it despite playing in the stadium with little support would be the ones to go ahead so. i. while in kuki gave them the lead just twenty two minutes in but it got better for the tories before the break. to best stand out player of the tournament more easily

making it to nils with his eighth goal of the campaign to save the home crowd however didn't take what they were seeing very well the bottles and shoes were among the things the tare team from the stands had to standardise off to the breaks the referee's patience was really tested as on field tensions continue to grow curt . v.m. rockies tried their best to get back into the game but had little success. eighteen minutes they were finally put out of their misery hasa know her dismay can you three nil this. was. the score line going out of the tournament and the disappointment of that founds all seem to be getting too much for the u.a.e. players if my last meant taking out his frustration with an elbow in injury time it was scored by v.a.r. . and meant he had to be sent off to qatar we're not finished though ha made a smile making it four nil to see arguably the biggest win in the history of qatari

football this year. there. was the now move on to friday's final against japan a win for qatar will see them stage the first world cup in the middle east in twenty twenty two as asian champions so he'll mallett al-jazeera. p.s.g. champions league chances have suffered a major blow it comes after their forward neymar was ruled out for ten weeks following an injury the brazilian has a fractured metta tarsa which means he'll miss his side's last sixteen tie against manchester united next month p.s. she currently lead the league table with fifty six points manchester city have lost ground in the race to win the english premier league title they suffered a surprise to feet away at newcastle's city were ahead in the first minute goals from solomon rondo and matt ritchie gave newcastle a two one when liverpool are four points clear of city at the top of the table and play leicester later this wednesday. the rugby league season gets underway on its

european heartlands of england in france on thursday but elsewhere the sport is facing a crisis greece are on the verge of qualifying for their first ever world cup foul play off the field could ruin their chances john's rob less reports from athens. these rugby league players are rebels grieco thirty's have tried to ban some of them from the sport altogether but not only do they refused to stop their winning international matches and hope to qualify for the world cup where quite confident that way can go all the way so well so close to reaching the world cup and it's an ironic twist that greece itself the way things are going greece and so may prevent greece from playing in a world cup the greek rugby league association is a splinter group three years ago its players revolted against greece's official rugby league authority one of the teams is going to be expelled there isn't way james would be on. the mass walkout from the other players and there was no

chance of compromise once we realize that we all just. went off on the fans essentially. the official hellenic rugby league federation still has four teams and practices regularly but it is no longer recognised by rugby league's european and international governing bodies in twenty sixteen they expelled it for poor governance and instead recognised its rebel offshoot so greek law recognizes the federation and international rugby recognizes the rebels and the federation is using the power of greek law to pursue its rival last year it filed a complaint that resulted in police interrupting an association match with serbia since then the association has played its international matches at secret locations safe and i'm a moment because if there is only one national team which is the one that we organize it's wonderfully spontaneously form. play but such teams cannot claim to

be legal entities they cannot create national tournaments and they cannot play overseas teams in international tournaments and claim to represent greece but the rebels are generating new teams and claim to be luring players away from the federation rugby isn't a professional sport in greece it isn't even an amateur sport it's a volunteer sport these people have come here from all walks of life as shop attendants security guards military men and women and students to practice in below freezing temperatures on the outskirts of athens driven only by their enthusiasm and this is they who very take theories to the twenty twenty one world cup the association is playing norway if they win they'll play scotland here in athens in november to qualify for the world cup and the federation vows to stop that from happening jobs are open al-jazeera. a former national coach of south korea's speed skating team has been hit with more jail time chose has been convicted of

assaulting a two time olympic champion the cases prompted the country's biggest ever investigation into physical and sexual abuse in sport robert bright reports from so all. beyond was originally sentenced last september to ten months in prison for assaulting four athletes one of them being shem suki he arrived in court in a prison van to hear the verdict of his appeal against that decision only to be told that his original sentence of ten months is now to be extended to eighteen months shem had told his appeal hearing last december how she had been kicked and punched repeatedly during her training for the young chang winter olympics so much so she said she felt like she was going to die but earlier this month as she made the bombshell allegation that cho had also raped her on a number of occasions it is an allegation that cho threw his lawyers has denied

nevertheless this case has sent shock waves through the whole sporting community of south korea in particular in short track speed skating it's a sport in which south korea has a particular prowess winning twenty four olympic gold medals since the early ninety's she herself is a double a lympics gold medalist but it does seem to indicate that a culture of abuse has been tolerated in the pursuit of a limb pick excellence as the country's president moon j.n. has said of this case it does seem to show the humiliating underside of the country's a glorious facade as a sporting powerhouse. the n.b.a. now and houston's three game winning run is over the rockets were beaten by the new orleans pelicans on cheers they they lost despite a great display from m.v.p. james harden in bad thirty seven points extending his streak of thirty point games

to twenty four and the absence of injured anthony davis to hill for stepped up for the pelicans is twenty seven points helping new orleans to one hundred and twenty one to one hundred and six with. and that's all your support for now more coming up later back to you sammy. that's it for this news hour will be back in a moment with another. in just a couple minutes from now so stay with us. ladies

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and on al-jazeera. with bureaus spanning six continents across the globe. al-jazeera has correspondents live in green the stories they tell. about it. fluent in world news. nicholas might do those allies in moscow push to play mediator in his power struggle with venezuela's self declared leader.

and sammy's a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up back to the you the u.k.'s prime minister gets the go ahead from parliament to renegotiate parts of it breaks it deal online booking giants accused of profiting from war crimes by doing business with israelis in occupied palestinian territory saving face time apple hari's to fix a glitch after a major security flaw. now is the united states puts further pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to resign. but duren self is changing his tune now says he's ready to negotiate with his opposition rival one who's declared himself interim leader now durham made the offer during an interview with russian media kremlin is one of his most

important allies but he's rejected calls for a snap presidential election insisting the next one won't be held before two thousand and twenty five opposition leader go away those called for continued demonstrations meanwhile russia appears came to play a mediation role foreign minister sergei lavrov says the opposition has to keep an open mind in the region the little two model if this mediation sees any attempt to include any kind of preconditions the next kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or useful it is unlikely to be supported we call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums into work independently gliders only by the interests of the venezuelan people go of her alexander dampier who is in bogota colombia as capital and we're hearing with tourist now accusing dessert is of plotting a coup from colombia tell us more about that. well tell me my

daughter made those accusation while he was leaving for military exercises in a military base in qatar as we've been seeing him doing so for a number of days since the beginning of this crisis is there a way for the government to show that neither would a sale has the full backing of the military but in this case he has recognized that there have been a number. and he said that they are now in colombia and that he was conspiring with the colombian government to see a time invasion of a new square law it's possible these kind of accusation also or nothing new. to say that's a colombian government so far has been that fast and insisting that the diplomatic solution is the only one that's the key for business well but it's also true that we we know that the united states government has said that all options are on the

table and john bolton the united states security national adviser was caught on camera with a note spoke saying that the five thousand troops could be sent to colombia all this is useful to put pressure on the collapse might do those governments pressure him to step down and my daughter's government is also using get to try to entrench himself and ensure that the military stands beside him and all this is happening just one day after the country's attorney general started an investigation into the leader of the opposition and self-proclaimed president saying that they will freeze is assets and also saying that you will not be able to leave the country. it took the venezuelan government less than twenty four hours

to attempt to strike back against the latest round of you saying since the countries that tourney general announced that the leader of the opposition and self-proclaimed interim president will be banned from leaving the country and his bank accounts will be frozen. we have opened a preliminary investigation we have come to the supreme court to request cautionary measures cause three measures as we carry out the investigation against the citizen a travel ban to avoid his departure from the country and to the income property and real estate three the freezing of accounts. shrugged off the announcement as more of the same. i'm not downplaying the threat of being imprisoned i don't want you to see it that way but frankly i see nothing new under the sun unfortunately this is a regime that offers no answers to the venezuelan people the only response is persecution and repression. the freezing of those accounts appears to be an effort

to complicate a u.s. plan to direct oil revenues to the opposition as they try to win support from military officials still loyal to president nicolas maduro more than twenty countries are now recognized as being this way as legitimate leader yet my daughter still has some international support mainly from china and russia who once again said that the u.s. sanctions are illegal. what the united states and their closest allies are doing with regards to finish is of course very worrying crudely violating all norms of international law and essentially taking a direct course at legal authority since latin american nations. over more than a week demonstrators have been taking to the streets protesting the dire economic situation in demanding president steps down. we've been met with force and the

threat of imprisonment the family as the power struggle for many continues both inside and outside the country is actually intensifying and in three hours time. support the opposition are expected. to walk out work then down the sidewalk or two hours holding demanding change in the country and free election. that the british parliament has given the go ahead for tourism and to return to brussels to try to secure a better break the deal one of the prime ministers most important to go shooting tools has been watered down m.p.'s voted to reject or no deal from the speaking a short time ago this is may said she still has a number of options. what has been absolutely clear is my contacts with the european union leaders is that they want a deal what this house voted for last night is to leave the european union with

a deal but it also crucially showed what it will take to see a sport in this house for sure a deal in the future i think the plan that was set out last night shows that we can attain a substantial and sustainable majority in this house and then piece have been meeting in secret over the past week to create a bit of rigs that plan that both sides would support it's been dubbed the malthouse compromise would essentially cede to resume a renegotiate the part of her agreement that deals with the irish border and replace it with the free trade accord just how that will work though is rather complicated fish all's hope yet to be invented technology could be set up to avoid customs checks on the irish border the morehouse compromise is named after a housing minister who came up with the idea it would also extend the transition period for at least one more year to formalize a new trading relationship with the e.u. john holl is outside westminster in central london and so joanna she says she has

other options but of course the big question is what are those options. well option is is one madrid idea is probably probably a better description the idea is that to reason may will take to the european union look the first point of contact since the vote on tuesday night between the government and the e.u. will happen in a few few hours time this evening a phone call between to resume and on to the council president he is likely to tell her just as the party you european parliament president did earlier this morning it just as michel barnier the brits have negotiated did this morning as. the commission president told her yes today the withdrawal agreement is not for reopening the backstop cannot be renegotiated she is going to say to them look we've got this majority she calls it stable and sustainable it's actually a very thin majority for a deal that involves most of the withdrawal agreement and

a revised version of the backstop either with an end date making it strictly temporary perhaps with a unilateral mechanism to get britain out of it or that multi-pass suggestion that technological border checks at a distance border checks in other words the real problem in the end here is that the e.u. has ruled out all of those possibilities in the past as well of course as ruling out as they will do again any mention of renegotiating the deal as it stands. yes she's invited the opposition leader to talk to her this afternoon that's going to happen in about an hour's time he's accepted where will that go it was quite hard to say they don't agree on very much other than a lot of bricks it should happen but they see it in very different terms it's thought according to german spokes person that he will tell the prime minister to

prepare for failure in these talks he's going to urge her to take no deal off the table by legislating against it he's going to urge her to soften her stance on consider a permanent customs union those are labor policy platforms and they may indeed all come up for a vote along with others including a second brigs it referendum the day after she returns potentially with nothing from the e.u. on joan february thirteenth vote showed you will therefore on february fourteenth valentine's day are a something else to watch for then on valentine's day thanks to my show and a half at least twenty eight people have been killed when two boats capsized off djibouti the boats were carrying at least one hundred thirty migrants and refugees when they tipped over shortly after departing many of the migrants are still missing thousands from east africa often attempt to cross the red sea to find work in gulf countries the united nations is warning refugees the migrants crossing the mediterranean sea are losing their lives at the alarming rate new figures released

by the un's refugee agency shows six people died on average every day last year it estimates more than two thousand two hundred migrants died or went missing one attempting the crossing the route was particularly deadly for boats leaving from libya one person die that sea for every fourteen who arrived in europe less despite the major drop in the number of refugees reaching europe hundred thirty nine thousand arrived in two thousand and eighteen that's the lowest number in five years. charlie yaxley is a spokesman for the un refugee agency he says the number of migrant deaths in two thousand and eighteen was deeply concerning the number of people arriving on european shores by mediterranean routes is down substantially compared to previous years we're back now to levels that we were typically seeing throughout the early two thousand but what is the.